Palm Springs is a desert resort city located in Riverside Country, California. It has a population of 44,552 as of the 2010 census, and as a retirement location, as well as a winter snowbird destination, the city's population triples between November and March. The city is noted for its mid-century modern architecture, design elements, arts and cultural scene, and recreational activities.[1]
Coverage[]
Palm Springs is featured in Holiday Hell.
It was introduced in 1 week after people when golf course fairways glisten, water fountains spray, and power still flows in the getaway of the stars, Palm Spring, a bizarre holiday oasis that flourishes in the barren desert. William T. Vollmann commented that it seems that the place doesn't belong here, drive around the city would see lawns, flowers, fountains, and ponds and it seems like a bad place to build a civilization. Despite Palm Springs being placed in a barren desert, it was crowded with more gold courses per square mile than any other place in America and after 1 week, the golf course sprinklers keep the fairways lush and inviting for no one. Nearby is the Palm Springs Aerial Tramway and without people, the car sits empty 200 feet in the air and swinging in a breeze that overlook the vacant resort city. Traffic lights still blink and air conditioners still hum because much of the power is still on due to the city's reliance on a massive forest of wind turbines and 4,000 of it still spin outside the resort city. As long as the wind pushes the blades, the electricity keeps pumping out and after a week, the blades still spin and generates thousands of kilowatts every hour, day, and time the wind blows.
The wind turbines shatters.
In 1 year after people, the wind turbines of Palm Spring is facing a worse enemy than rust, the wind itself. If the velocities exceeds, it will break apart and after a year without maintenance, acres of power producing windmills are vulnerable to the same fate. Butch Mederos stated that the first time a 100 mile an hour wind comes through Palm Springs, the rotor's would spin faster than it should which creates vibration and cause the turbine to come apart. The wind turbines break apart, one after another, as the pieces fall into the desert floor.
In 20 years after people, power went out long ago in Palm Springs with the windmill farms destroyed. The once bustling resort town is eerily silent, the golf courses have turned into acres of sand traps, vermin checks in at high end hotels, and the luxury swimming pools are empty cesspools.
The collapse cause a domino effect and the towers of the aerial tramway falls.
In 120 years after people, Palm Springs has reverted completely to desert. Where the snowbirds and retirees once lounged by the pools, the sand, yucca, and mesquite cover almost all remnants of Palm Springs and the civilization. Yet the Palm Springs Aerial Tramway still stands but one thing setting up a catastrophic chain reaction is a constant steady corrosion at the base of each tower with the problem begins with the cable. The constant steady pressure of the gondola and over a century of erosion have cause the cable to snap and the crashing gondola swings down into tower number 1 where the rust weakened tower cannot withstand the impact and begins to collapse. As the tower collapse, the other towers soon follow like the domino effect and the 5 towers connected by 2 miles of cable pull each other into the bedrock of the mountain and falls in an avalanche of rubble, dust, and twisted metal.
Transformation[]
Palm Springs 120 years after people, as it returns into a desert.
The transformation of Palm Springs is simple, being in a barren desert, Palm Springs would return to simply a desert. In 120 years after people, any remnants of Palm Springs would be cover up by the sand, yucca, and mesquite as the buildings still standing would stick out of the sand and are in the state of ruins.
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